Proof (2005)


Gwyneth Paltrow         Catherine
Jake Gyllenhaal         Hal
Anthony Hopkins         Robert
Hope Davis              Claire
Gary Houston            Professor Barrow
Danny McCarthy (II)     Cop
Roshan Seth

Directed by:            John Madden
Produced by:            James D. Stern, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein


On the eve of her twenty-seventh birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant 
but unstable father, a mathematical genius named Robert, must deal not only with the arrival of her estranged 
sister, Claire, but also with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable 
work in the 103 notebooks of Robert's. As Catherine confronts Hal's affections and Claire's overbearing plans for 
her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father's madness--or genius
--will she inherit? 

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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with 
her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to 
search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.

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In Chicago, on the day of her twenty-seventh birthday, Catherine receives her sister Claire from New York for the 
funeral of their father Robert, who passed away a couple of days before. Robert was a brilliant mathematician that 
became bughouse, and Catherine had lived with him for the last five years, inclusive quitting her studies in the 
faculty, and she is concerned about having inherited his insanity. The mathematician of the University of Chicago, 
Hal, is making a research in Robert's notebooks, trying to find any brilliant proof that Robert might have produced 
in one moment of lucidity. When Hal has one nightstand with Catherine, she gives a notebook to him with the 
development of a unique mathematics theory that Catherine claims that she developed. Hal and Claire do not believe 
on her, until the truth is disclosed.